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Half of new top level domain name company Donuts’ founding team is no longer in their original day-to-day roles.

The company announced that Richard Tindal, COO and one of four co-founders of the company, has “retired” from Donuts.

Earlier this year, co-founder and CEO Paul Stahura switched roles with Bruce Jaffe. Jaffe was Executive Chairman of the company’s board. Stahura is now a full-time Executive Chairman.

When Jaffe replaced Stahura, the company also hired John Pollard as Chief Revenue Officer. At the time, Pollard told Domain Name Wire that despite some overlaps between his role and that of the other Donuts’ co-founders, the founders would all remain with the company.

“I wouldn’t have taken this job if any of the founders were leaving,” Pollard said in January.

A discussion about new top level domain names with the biggest new TLD company.

Donuts Inc doesn’t sell baked goods by the dozen — it sells new domain names. But like Krispy Kreme, it sells a lot of varieties of its product. In this episode, I chat with Donuts co-founder and COO Richard Tindal.

Donuts is the largest new TLD company with over 300 applications and nearly 200 domain names released. We discuss why Donuts thinks new TLDs are better than .com and what the company will do this year to market its new domain names to the broader public.